It Took 300,000 Viewers to Finally Feel Seen and Find True Friends
Maybe it’s not your fault if you can’t find your tribe
You know that feeling when you meet someone for the first time and it seems like you’ve known them forever?
Or that feeling when you can be yourself with someone without second-guessing every word?
I almost never felt like that for most of my life. Not even with longtime friends and relatives.
Talking to people feels like a chess game for me. I always worry about saying the right thing and predicting how they will respond. If I miss the target, I lose the game.
This always made me feel wrong. Why am I trudging while the others are gliding?
I never threw in the towel, though. I try to make conversations satisfying. But sharing what I care about only makes the distance more glaring. People just politely wait until I finish before changing the subject.
Content creation saved me. It lightened my loneliness despite making me spend most of my time by myself in front of a computer. Over the years, it improved my real-life interactions, too.
I want to be seen
Introversion and fear of judgment always pushed me to hide. In conversations, I…
